RCW 41.24.200
Service need not be continuous nor in a single department or agency.
The aggregate term of service of any participant need not be continuous nor need it be confined to a single fire department or law enforcement agency nor a single municipality in this state to entitle such participant to a retirement pension if the participant has been duly enrolled in a fire department or law enforcement agency of a municipality which has elected to extend the retirement pension provisions of this chapter to its firefighters or reserve officers at the time he or she becomes eligible for the retirement pension and has paid all fees prescribed. To be eligible to the full pension a participant must have an aggregate of twenty-five years service, have made twenty-five annual payments into the fund, and be sixty-five years of age at the time the participant commences drawing the pension provided for by this chapter, all of which twenty-five years service must have been in the fire department or law enforcement agency of a municipality or municipalities which have elected to extend the retirement pension provisions of this chapter to its firefighters or reserve officers. Nothing in this chapter shall require any participant having twenty-five years active service to continue as a firefighter or reserve officer and no participant who has completed twenty-five years of active service for which annual retirement pension fees have been paid and who continues as a firefighter or reserve officer shall be required to pay any additional annual pension fees.
[ 1999 c 148 § 18; 1995 c 11 § 12; 1989 c 91 § 17; 1973 1st ex.s. c 170 § 4; 1961 c 57 § 4; 1953 c 253 § 5; 1945 c 261 § 20; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 9578-34.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1989 c 91: See note following RCW 41.24.010.
Effective date—1973 1st ex.s. c 170: See note following RCW 41.24.030.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.24 - Volunteer Firefighters' and Reserve Officers' Relief and Pensions.
41.24.020 - Enrollment of firefighters—Death, disability, retirement benefits.
41.24.023 - Retired participant may resume volunteer service—Board approval required.
41.24.040 - Fees, when payable—Interest—Effect of nonpayment.
41.24.060 - Board of trustees—How constituted.
41.24.070 - Officers of board—Record of proceedings—Forms.
41.24.080 - Duties of board and state board—Disbursements.
41.24.100 - Compelling attendance of witnesses—Oaths—Rules and regulations.
41.24.110 - Reimbursement of physicians and medical staff.
41.24.120 - Hearing of application for benefits—Appeal to state board.
41.24.130 - Quorum—Vote on allowance of claims.
41.24.140 - Guardian may be appointed.
41.24.150 - Disability payments.
41.24.155 - Vocational rehabilitation—Purpose—Costs—Administration—Discretion of state board.
41.24.170 - Retirement pensions.
41.24.1701 - Purchasing retirement pension coverage—Criteria.
41.24.172 - Retirement pensions—Options—Election.
41.24.176 - Disability or retirement payments—Construction.
41.24.180 - Lump sum payments.
41.24.185 - Lump sum payments—Monthly pension under fifty dollars.
41.24.200 - Service need not be continuous nor in a single department or agency.
41.24.210 - Report of accident—Time limitation for filing report and claim.
41.24.215 - Injured volunteer—Recovery from third party.
41.24.220 - Hospitalization, surgery, etc.
41.24.230 - Funeral and burial expenses.
41.24.240 - Benefits not transferable or subject to legal process—Exceptions—Chapter not exclusive.
41.24.245 - Payments to spouse or ex spouse pursuant to court order.
41.24.260 - State board for volunteer firefighters and reserve officers—Meetings—Quorum.
41.24.290 - State board for volunteer firefighters and reserve officers—Powers and duties.
41.24.300 - State board for volunteer firefighters and reserve officers—Vouchers, warrants.
41.24.330 - Emergency medical service districts—Board of trustees—Creation.
41.24.340 - Emergency medical service districts—Board of trustees—Officers—Annual report.
41.24.400 - Reserve officers—Enrollment—Limitations.
41.24.410 - Reserve officers—Credit for service.
41.24.430 - Reserve officers—Eligibility for benefit.
41.24.450 - Reserve officers—Municipality adoption of relief benefits.
41.24.460 - Reserve officers—Board of trustees.
41.24.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.